Spy agency anxious over
increase in ‘phenomenon’ of Freeman anti-government ideology in Canada

A Calgary pensioner’s rental duplex was
claimed as an ‘embassy’ by ‘sovereign citizen’ Andreas Pirelli, also
known as Mario Antonacci, and his friends

CALGARY — A so-called sovereign citizen movement emerged from the
shadows in 2013 with the story of a pensioner whose rental duplex was
claimed as an “embassy” by a follower and his friends.

A week after Rebekah Caverhill of Calgary went public with her
two-year struggle, authorities swooped in, arrested a man and
transferred him to Quebec to face allegations that he assaulted a
landlady in Montreal.

While Caverhill’s ordeal ended peacefully and she has her home back,
it focused the attention of politicians, police and pundits on a
movement often referred to as Freeman-on-the-Land and whose members
believe they live outside government control.

The Law Society of B.C. and B.C. Notaries have both issued warnings
about Freemen and the RCMP and the Canadian Association of Chiefs of
Police are developing awareness materials for frontline officers.

Even the Canadian Security Intelligence Service is concerned. It has
noted that law-enforcement agencies have seen “an increase in the number
of incidents related to (Freemen) anti-government ideology in Canada.”

“We’ve been paying attention to them,” said John Thompson from the
Mackenzie Institute, an organization that studies terrorism, political
extremism and organized crime. “They’ve become a Canadian phenomenon
since about 2008. There’s several hundred of them in Ontario and they’re
slowly growing the last few years.”

The movement traces its roots to the Montana Freemen, who declared
themselves to be no longer under the authority of any outside
government. They made a splash in 1996 when they engaged in a prolonged
armed standoff with agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who
attempted to arrest some of the group’s members at a farm in Jordan,
Mont.

It took 81 days before the heavily armed group finally surrendered.

“We brought in 300 tactical agents,” recalled retired FBI agent Tom
Canady, who was in charge of the operation. “They were as tough as
God-damned nails. If we were to go in shooting, they probably would have
loved it.”

Montana lawyer Greg Jackson represented one of the men arrested
following the standoff.

“There was no doubt they were absolutely true believers. Most of them
had been people who were respected substantial businessmen and ranchers
who had fallen behind in their taxes,” he said. “A lot of them had come
pretty well disenchanted with the government.”

Rebekah Caverhill's disputed
property

Jackson remembers snipers on the courthouse rooftop during
the trial over fears that militia groups were going to
intervene. But he said the attraction of the Freemen movement
was somewhat limited.

“The odd thing is to some extent a good share of the
population could identify with them to a degree, but felt they
were way too radical in terms of their beliefs and their
approach.”

Police say followers of the Freemen-on-the-Land movement
commonly claim they do not require a driver’s licence, insurance
or vehicle registration. They also frequently assert a right to
have weapons for self-protection and produce or possess illegal
drugs, as well as demand that the Bank of Canada allow them to
withdraw funds on non-existent accounts.

Other actions flagged by police include squatting in
unoccupied homes or open areas, creating self-styled personal
identification papers, filing lawsuits against officials and
issuing a “bill for services rendered” after an interaction with
a police officer.

In the United States, the FBI considers the movement a
domestic terror threat. A 2011 FBI report cites several cases
where followers clashed with law enforcement, including the 2010
shooting of two Arkansas officers during a routine traffic stop.

Thompson said Freemen don’t fall into the domestic terrorist
category in Canada.

“They’re not considered too dangerous just yet,” he said.
“But there are some police who are keeping a leery eye on them.

“In parts of the United States they’ve got more access to
firearms and in Canada it’s not the same sort of thing.”

Freemen followers say the movement is not about violence.

There were concerns in October when several armed “sovereign
citizens” took over a trappers cabin near Grande Prairie, Alta.,
just weeks after Caverhill’s case made headlines. But the matter
ended peacefully when RCMP moved in and made an arrest.

“Most of us are peaceful,” B.C. Freemen follower Brian
Alexander said in an interview earlier this year. “We paid our
taxes, we love our country and all that, but when they start
pushing at you, you tend to start asking questions and that’s
where this whole movement comes from.”

The Alberta government has been consulting with law
enforcement officials in other provinces since Caverhill’s
affair.

If there’s anything good out of this story, I think it’s brought
the issue to the forefront of public opinion. Now that this is
out, I think people are less susceptible to the wiles of these
people

“This is a very loud, vocal, but minuscule minority,” said
Alberta Justice Minister Jonathan Denis, who has been sued by
the group. “These people do cause a lot of problems, but at the
same time they’re not nearly as numerous as some may let on.

“If there’s anything good out of this story, I think it’s
brought the issue to the forefront of public opinion. Now that
this is out, I think people are less susceptible to the wiles of
these people.”

Denis said Alberta courts can now declare an individual a
“vexatious litigant” which blocks them from taking legal action
without the approval of a judge.

“They do seem to have pockets of activity throughout the
country and they seem to be personality driven and inspired,”
said Manmeet Bhullar, who until recently was the minister for
Service Alberta, the department responsible for registries, land
titles and consumer protection.

“A certain personality can inspire actions and create a bunch
of activity in a region. It’s unfortunate the only way they can
show themselves to be independent and unique is to claim they
are not subject to the rights and protections and
responsibilities associated with being a Canadian.”

While Caverhill’s situation didn’t end in a standoff or
violence, she was left hurt by what happened.

“I’m trying to move forward but this has impacted me like you
wouldn’t believe both physically and emotionally,” said
Caverhill, who noted she had to change her phone number recently
because of harassing calls from supporters of her former renter.

“I think they’re dangerous because they have usurped the
person’s right to make a choice. They are going against the laws
of the country and establishing a country within a country.”

Let's get it straight, Freeman are not "true believers" any more than
any criminal who uses a justification as a reason for committing a
criminal offence.

Freeman use "justifications" that are a symptom of a selfish,
borderline personality that shows little empathy for others who they
victimize.

They can best be described as "scoundrels" at worst and even the most
challenged judge, who is suffering a hang over and half asleep is
unlikely to find in their favour anything to do with "Admiralty law" and
or give any credence to the significance of the ball on top of the
flagpole and or their crazy cult like ideas on the law of contract. They
get hit with costs and are rarely ever successful. The problem is, the
tools judges use to deal with freeman are abused and used upon
legitimate litigants who dare to allege criminal offences by
authorities.

Our police chiefs, the Justice Minister and CSIS should be more
concerned about the more substantive problems suffered by the justice
system.

Take the widespread corruption in our Judiciary that NO ONE wishes to
acknowledge that does not necessarily mean cash in envelopes for
decisions, its far more insidious and relates to the Organized crime
that again, virtually NO ONE wishes to acknowledge.

It's starts with lawyers who work for Ontario's most corrupt criminal
Cult, the private corporations with an exclusive non tendered contract
for Child Protection operated by 48 Children's Aid Societies of Ontario
that are so notorious that lawyers call them "The Gestapo".

Their Billion dollars of funding, is a theft of public money used to
abuse children, in the adoption and foster business that has, unlimited
legal funds and who employ the lowest form of humanity imaginable as
lawyers.

These professional fabricators of evidence, after demonstrating their
loyalty to the Cult, are frequently patched over to the judiciary where
they turn a blind eye to their obvious conflicts and do almost nothing
but Child Protection Cases where they

"Rubber Stamp" decisions for the most corrupt example of organized
crime that makes the Hells Angels look, well like Angels by comparison.

No one ever calls the HA child abusers but the same cannot be said
for the CAS.

Take Children's Aid Society Child Protection Worker, Phillip
Hiltz-Laforge, a professional fabricator of evidence who takes children
from victims of domestic violence and places them with child abusers.

It's that kind of behaviour that gives Phill Hiltz-Laforge job
security, or so he thinks. Then there is the unconvicted criminal,
Marguerite Isobel Lewis , the lawyer for the children's aid society of
Ottawa who fabricates evidence to protect Phil Hiltz-Laforge.

Then you have Rotten Cops like Detective Peter Vanderzander who
fabricates evidence and the rotten apples of the Ottawa Police who
fabricate evidence to protect violent women, that is, to protect their
claim that only 10% of DV victims are women.

CSIS and the Ontario Police Chiefs will turn deliberate blind eyes to
the obvious and look to investigate anything that might divert the
attention of the public from the Criminal Cartels that rip off Canada
for Billions of dollars to commit offences against children and more
importantly, criminal offences against the Administration of Justice.

If you have been a victim of Phillip Hiltz-Laforge, Marguerite Lewsis
or Det. Peter Vanderzander email stopcasdotca@gmail.com

The Freeman are entitled to genuine beliefs, but the problem is, they
have delusional ideas of law and the Freeman are not alone and many
authorities in Canada adopt crazy Freeman style justifications for
improper delusional concepts in law.

One of the worst cases of Freeman style litigation, is the Children's
Aid Societies of Ontario who abuse and or break every rule imaginable
and more to support their own addiction to the the bottomless pit of tax
payers funds to support 48 criminal private corporations that
are sucking Ontario over over Billion Dollars a year in direct operating
costs and Billions, yes Billions in indirect costs.

So are out police forces, take Ottawa sucking around 100 Million Dollars
a year for their partner assault , a thinly disguised political police
force whose role includes arresting and charging Male Victims of
domestic violence, and
call the CAS to take away the children from any single mother who has
the courage to call the police and report domestic violence.

What a corrupt society we live in and the worst criminals in Canada are
those who are supposedly there to serve and protect.